FTC acts against private equity firm’s acquisition of veterinary clinics
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Re: FTC acts against private equity firm’s acquisition of veterinary clinics
#2Interesting. I'd like to see more action against the financialization of many other industries / domains, like healthcare and even housing, that I feel are not well served by a purely-market driven perspective. One wonders what the Private Equity firm's intention was here.
Re: FTC acts against private equity firm’s acquisition of veterinary clinics
#3Interesting. I'd like to see more action against the financialization of many other industries / domains, like healthcare and even housing, that I feel are not well served by a purely-market driven perspective. One wonders what the Private Equity firm's intention was here.
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Re: FTC acts against private equity firm’s acquisition of veterinary clinics
#4Interesting. I'd like to see more action against the financialization of many other industries / domains, like healthcare and even housing, that I feel are not well served by a purely-market driven perspective. One wonders what the Private Equity firm's intention was here.
There's a number of these where there's a desire to make it appear there is competition, but actually all are owned by the same conglomerate.
I would be 0% surprised if similar things haven't been done or tried in optometry, dentists, etc.
Re: FTC acts against private equity firm’s acquisition of veterinary clinics
#5I don't understand how some ( to me ) obvious anticompetitive corps seem to go unnoticed, but in this case veterinary clinics are receiving scrutiny.
Re: FTC acts against private equity firm’s acquisition of veterinary clinics
#6Interesting. I'd like to see more action against the financialization of many other industries / domains, like healthcare and even housing, that I feel are not well served by a purely-market driven perspective. One wonders what the Private Equity firm's intention was here.
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ah yes, a more profit driven healthcare sector, exactly what this country needs
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#7Re: FTC acts against private equity firm’s acquisition of veterinary clinics
#8Interesting. I'd like to see more action against the financialization of many other industries / domains, like healthcare and even housing, that I feel are not well served by a purely-market driven perspective. One wonders what the Private Equity firm's intention was here.
There's a number of these where there's a desire to make it appear there is competition, but actually all are owned by the same conglomerate. I would be 0% surprised if similar things haven't been done or tried in optometry, dentists, etc.
See luxottica and their “brands”.
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ah yes, a more profit driven healthcare sector, exactly what this country needs
Shielding people from the actual prices does raise the actual prices typically.
Yet somehow market driven healthcare is almost universally more expensive, it’s like there are some monopolistic effects involved.
For example several attempts to privatize the VA failed because of the vast increase in costs.
Re: FTC acts against private equity firm’s acquisition of veterinary clinics
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's a number of these where there's a desire to make it appear there is competition, but actually all are owned by the same conglomerate. I would be 0% surprised if similar things haven't been done or tried in optometry, dentists, etc.
See luxottica and their “brands”.
They even own the insurance company, EyeMed...